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12.25.2004 |
News of the Future
The theology of stem cells, freedom's effect on health,
brainjacking as an art form, and Rummy Gone Wild.
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Donald Rumsfeld |
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12.18.2004 |
Cloning Politics
at the UN
Dr. J. chats with Bernie Siegel, Executive Director of
the Genetics Policy Institute, about
his crusade to defend embryonic stem cell research from the
bioconservatives.
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Bernie Siegel |
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12.11.2004 |
The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant
Dr. J. reads
Dr. Nick Bostrom's
allegory of the struggle to stop aging, soon to be published in the
Journal of Medical Ethics.
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11.27.2004 |
Atheism
Dr. J. chats with
Reggie Finley about the arguments for atheism. Finley produces the
"Infidel Guy" radio show, part of the
Atheist Radio network. |
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11.13.2004 |
Infidel
Guy
Dr. J. chats with
Reggie Finley about the need to fight the Religious Right and the
Bush administration. Finley produces the
"Infidel Guy" radio show, part of the
Atheist Radio network. |
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| 10.30.2004 |
Nanotechnology and Sustainable Development
Bryan Bruns, a development
sociologist who has championed the
open sourcing of nanotechnology, argues in this talk, from
October's Foresight conference in Washington D.C., that
nanotechnology would provide improved and cheaper water purification,
solar energy production, communication and medicine.
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10.23.2004 |
The World Owes You a Living - Part 5
A broadcast of the fifth installment of the 6 hour audio
montage/ documentary "The
World Owes You a Living".
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10.9.2004 |
This Can't Be Happening!
Dr. J. chats with David Lindorff, veteran investigative
journalist
and author of This Can't be
Happening!, about Iraq, Social Security, and rogue dolphins. |
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10.2.2004 |
Think Globally
Dr. J. chats with Dr. Charles Prewitt, veteran activist
and chapter leader of the Mansfield
Citizens for Global Solutions.
Charlie worked on the Manhattan Project, lived in Iran and Afghanistan,
and has devoted decades to the struggle for peace and justice. We chat
about the importance of the upcoming election. |
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Dr. Charles Prewitt |
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9.25.2004 |
Metabods
Dr. J. chats with Brian Ramirez Kyle, the creator of
Metabods.com, a website devoted to
gay erotic fantasies about boytaurs, men with multiple limbs or
genitals, and radical size and shape transformations. We talk about how
radical body mod subcultures might be on the cutting edge of the fight
for tolerance of transhuman diversity. |
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| 9.25.2004 |
The Tao of Democracy
Dr. J. talks with
Tom Atlee, author of
The Tao of Democracy and
director of the Co-Intelligence
Institute. Atlee argues for expanded use of participatory democracy
through citizen juries to develop "co-intelligent citizenship." |
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9.18.2004 |
The World Owes You a Living
A broadcast of the first 30 minutes of the 6 hour audio
montage/documentary "The
World Owes You a Living". |
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9.11.2004
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The Culture Wars
Jende Huang of the
American Humanist Association
speaks on the culture wars raging in the United States between the
theocratic religious right and the humanists. Mr. Huang's speech
was delivered at Transvision
2004. |
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| 9.4.2004 |
How to Campaign
Dr. J. talks with Cathy Shaw, former mayor of
Ashland Oregon and author of
The Campaign Manager: Running and Winning Local Elections, on the
dos and don'ts of campaigning. |
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| 8.28.2004 |
America the Almighty: Maverick Hyperpower
Dr. J. talks with Stephen L. Damours, author of America the
Almighty: The Maverick Hyperpower, a critique of US foreign policy and
argument for federalist solutions to global problems. Damours formerly
worked at the US State Department, and currently serves on the Board of
Directors of Citizens for Global
Solutions and has served on the Board. |
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| 8.21.2004 |
Open Source Democracy
Dr. J. talks with
Douglas Rushkoff, author of
Open
Source Democracy (download PDF), published by the UK thinktank Demos.
Rushkoff is the author of nine books, including
Cyberia and
Playing the Future. |
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7.17.2004 |
Cyborg Olympics
Dr. J. talks with Andy Miah, author of
Genetically Modified Athletes:
Biomedical Ethics, Gene Doping,and Sport. We discuss the
ineffectiveness of global anti-doping efforts in the face of new
technologies, and the need for a two-tier sporting regime that monitors
but permits athletic enhancements. |
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7.10.2004 |
Fear and Loathing
in Public Policy
Dr. J. talks with
Martha Nussbaum,
professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago and author of
Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame and the Law. We discuss the
role of disgust and shame in shaping public policies
in illiberal ways, and the ramifications of Leon Kass' yuck factor
ethics. |
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6.26.2004 |
Forbidding Posthumans
Dr. J. talks with
Max Mehlman,
law prof at Case Western Reserve University, bioethicist and author of
Wondergenes: Genetic Enhancement and the Future of Society,
which argues for strict global restrictions on human enhancement in
order to avoid exacerbating inequality.
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| 6.19.2004 |
Mondo Revolution
- Part Two
Dr. J. talks with psychedelic futurist writer and activist
R.U. Sirius, founder/editor of High Frontiers and
Mondo
2000, author of The Revolution,
and editor of
Neofiles. |
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| 6.12.2004 |
Should We Want to be
Better Than Well? Part Two
Dr. J. talks with
journalist Gary Greenberg, author of many articles for
Mother Jones, the
New Yorker and other magazines, about the UnaBomber,
psychopharmaceuticals, brain death Carl Elliott's
Better Than Well and the idea of human enhancement.
Mondo Revolution
- Part One
Dr. J. talks with psychedelic futurist writer and activist
R.U. Sirius, founder/editor of High Frontiers and
Mondo 2000, author of The Revolution, and editor of
Neofiles. |
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R.U. Sirius |
6.5.2004
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Should We Want to be
Better Than Well? Part One
Dr. J. talks with
journalist Gary Greenberg, author of many articles for
Mother Jones, the
New Yorker and other magazines, about the UnaBomber,
psychopharmaceuticals, brain death Carl Elliott's
Better Than Well and the idea of human enhancement.
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Also listen to Greenberg read his deconstruction of brain death in the New
Yorker article "As Good as Dead" (33
minutes)
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5.29.2004 |
Humanism
Dr. J. talks with
Jende Huang,
field organizer for the
American Humanist
Association, about the religious right, and the growing free thought
movement on U.S. campuses. |
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Making the Manifesto: The Birth of Religious Humanism by William F.
Schulz |
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5.15.2004 |
Bacteria Shall Inherit the Earth
Dr. J. talks with
British futurist Ian
Pearson, author of
many articles
about the future in his capacity as official futurologist for British
Telecom. In particular they chat about
the
future of human evolution. |
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5.8.2004 |
The Radical Middle
Dr. J. talks with
Mark Satin, former New
Left activist, turned exponent of "New Age politics," and now author of
Radical Middle: The Politics We Need Now. |
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5.1.2004 |
Green Goo for Everybody
Dr. J. talks with
Mike Treder about the promise
and challenge of molecular
nanotechnology, the need to regulate nanotechnology and make it
widely accessible. Mike Treder is the co-founder of the
Center for Responsible Nanotechnology. |
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4.24.2004 |
The Illusiveness of Immortality
Dr. J. reads his recent Change
Suring essay
"The Illusiveness of Immortality": you don't exist but lesbian mice
babies do.
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4.17.2004
4.10.2004 |
Basic Income for all Brazilians
CSR broadcasts a speech by
Eduardo
Suplicy a member of the Brazilian Senate representing the Workers
Party. Senator Suplicy spoke on Feb. 21, 2004 at the
3rd Annual
Congress of the US Basic Income Guarantee movement on the recent
passage of a basic income guarantee in Brazil.
also read
Philipe von Parijs's report on the adoption of the legislation in
Brazil
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Senator Eduardo Suplicy, Brazilian Worker's Party |
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4.03.2004 |
Nano
Dr. J. talks to
John
Robert Marlow, author of the fast-paced techno-thriller
Nano which explores the political, military and transhumanist
implications of molecular manufacturing and nanorobotics. |
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3.20.2004 |
Mind Over Technology
Dr. J. talks to
Richard Samson, a
futurist, author of a number of books on human potential and director of
the EraNova Institute. In
Mind over Technology, Mr. Samson argues that, as machines
automate routine physical and intellectual labor, human beings will be
able to enhance their unique human capacities to find new niches in the
economy.
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3.13.2004 |
Pandora's Baby
Dr. J. talks to
Robin Marantz Henig on her book
Pandora's Baby, a story about the moral panic around the first
"test-tube babies," born from in-vitro fertilization.
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2.28.2004
3.6.2004 |
Sickness and Wealth
CSR presents a Feb. 9, 2004 speech by
Dr. Stephen Bezruchka, author of
a series of books on the Himalayas, and a series of articles
on the connections between
inequality,
globalization and health. Dr. Bezruchka set up SCALPEL, which links
Nepali surgeons to medical officers posted to rural hospitals.
Currently he teaches in the International Health Program at the
School of Public Health and Community Medicine in the University
of Washington, where he directs the
Population Health
Forum. Dr. Bezruchka has an essay in the forthcoming
South End Press volume
Sickness and Wealth: The Corporate Assault on Global Health. |
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| 2.14.2004 |
Deviant Desires
For Valentine's Day, Dr. J. talks with
Katherine Gates,
author of Deviant
Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex, and founder of Gates
of Heck Press, about the boundary between sexual variation
and psychopathology, the political correctness of S&M, the
market for erotic genetic engineering, and the joying of blowing
up and popping balloons.
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out Ms. Gates' clickable
roadmap to sexual deviation.
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Katherine Gates
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| 1.31.2004 |
Betterhumans
Debate: Life Extension?
Dr. J. and Margaret Somerville debated the
ethics of life extension, among other topics in Toronto August 29, 2003,
in an event sponsored by, and available from, Betterhumans. |
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| 1.24.2004 |
Betterhumans
Dr. J. chats with Simon
Smith, editor of Betterhumans,
the leading transhumanist webzine.
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| 1.17.2004 |
Money
for People,
Later for Mars
Dr. J. chats with David Glenn about his
article
on universal employment and basic income policies from the Chronicle
of Higher Education. |
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